Ep. 29 From Barossa to Nullarbor - Everywhere Together
As we cross South Australia to the West, we spend a day in the famous Barossa wine region and taste some nice Shiraz here and there. Instead of the high way, we decide to take a track at Iron Knob and drive through the Gawler Ranges with its awesome rocks and rich wildlife. We camp next to the Pildappa Rock, and climb it, too. We then head to see the Nullarbor, and stop at plenty of places: a windmill museum, a deserted homestead, and the sea cliffs of the Great Australian Bight.
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The Koonalda Homestead and Cave, Nullarbor Plain, South Australia
Located on the vast and treeless Nullarbor Plain, Koonalda Station is about 14 kilometres north of the current Eyre Highway and offers a unique, free camping site from which to explore the surrounding area.
Built during World War II, sleepers from the nearby railway were used to build the homesteads outer walls and fences with timber for some of the windows and doors recycled from the old Eucla Telegraph Station 200 kilometres west.
Until 1976, this was a regular stop for travellers on the now disused Old Eyre Highway with many wrecks still rusting in the car graveyard nearby.
Early Australian Photos
I've compiled a small selection of early Australian photos, posters and photo cards. Compiled By John Boom 2015.
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Great Coast Road Trip Wild West
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Uluru, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania
Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock and officially gazetted as Uluru/Ayers Rock, is a large sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory in central Australia. It lies 335 km (208 mi) south west of the nearest large town, Alice Springs, 450 km (280 mi) by road. Kata Tjuta and Uluru are the two major features of the Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park. Uluru is sacred to the Anangu, the Aboriginal people of the area. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs, waterholes, rock caves, and ancient paintings. Uluru is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The local Pitjantjatjara people call the landmark Uluṟu. This word has no further particular meaning in the Pitjantjatjara language, although it is used as a local family name by the senior Traditional Owners of Uluru. On 19 July 1873, the surveyor William Gosse sighted the landmark and named it Ayers Rock in honour of the then Chief Secretary of South Australia, Sir Henry Ayers. Since then, both names have been used. In 1993, a dual naming policy was adopted that allowed official names that consist of both the traditional Aboriginal name and the English name. On 15 December 1993, it was renamed Ayers Rock / Uluru and became the first official dual-named feature in the Northern Territory. The order of the dual names was officially reversed to Uluru / Ayers Rock on 6 November 2002 following a request from the Regional Tourism Association in Alice Springs. Uluru is one of Australia's most recognisable natural landmarks. The sandstone formation stands 348 m (1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level, with most of its bulk lying underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi). Both Uluru and the nearby Kata Tjuta formation have great cultural significance for the Aṉangu people, the traditional inhabitants of the area, who lead walking tours to inform visitors about the local flora and fauna, bush foods and the Aboriginal dreamtime stories of the area. Uluru is notable for appearing to change colour at different times of the day and year, most notably glowing red at dawn and sunset. Kata Tjuta, also called Mount Olga or The Olgas, lies 25 km (16 mi) west of Uluru. Special viewing areas with road access and parking have been constructed to give tourists the best views of both sites at dawn and dusk. Uluru is an inselberg, literally island mountain. An inselberg is a prominent isolated residual knob or hill that rises abruptly from and is surrounded by extensive and relatively flat erosion lowlands in a hot, dry region. Uluru is also often referred to as a monolith, although this is a somewhat ambiguous term that is generally avoided by geologists. The remarkable feature of Uluru is its homogeneity and lack of jointing and parting at bedding surfaces, leading to the lack of development of scree slopes and soil. These characteristics led to its survival, while the surrounding rocks were eroded. For the purpose of mapping and describing the geological history of the area, geologists refer to the rock strata making up Uluru as the Mutitjulu Arkose, and it is one of many sedimentary formations filling the Amadeus Basin. Uluru is dominantly composed of coarse-grained arkose (a type of sandstone characterized by an abundance of feldspar) and some conglomerate. Average composition is 50% feldspar, 25-35% quartz and up to 25% rock fragments; most feldspar is K-feldspar with only minor plagioclase as subrounded grains and highly altered inclusions within K-feldspar. The grains are typically 2-4 millimetres (0.079-0.16 in) in diameter, and are angular to subangular; the finer sandstone is well sorted, with sorting decreasing with increasing grain size. The rock fragments include subrounded basalt, invariably replaced to various degrees by chlorite and epidote. The minerals present suggest derivation from a predominantly granite source, similar to the Musgrave Block exposed to the south. When relatively fresh, the rock has a grey colour, but weathering of iron-bearing minerals by the process of oxidation gives the outer surface layer of rock a red-brown rusty colour. Features related to deposition of the sediment include cross-bedding and ripples, analysis of which indicated deposition from broad shallow high energy fluvial channels and sheet flooding, typical of alluvial fans. The Mutitjulu Arkose is believed to be of about the same age as the conglomerate at Kata Tjuta, and to have a similar origin despite the rock type being different, but it is younger than the rocks exposed to the east at Mount Conner, and unrelated to them. The strata at Uluru are nearly vertical, dipping to the south west at 85°, and have an exposed thickness of at least 2,400 m (7,900 ft). The strata dip below the surrounding plain and no doubt extend well beyond Uluru in the subsurface, but the extent is not known.
Winton Pictorial - Queensland.
Winton is in the area where Dinosaurs once roamed. Its a big tourism feature from the town. It has some nice old stores to look through as well.
Photography 2013 by John Boom.
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Holiday Inn Louisville-North (Clarksville) - Clarksville, Indiana
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Famous Train Ride in West Virginia | Full Length Video | CASS Scenic Railroad
Take A Spectacular Rail Adventure deep into the mountains of West Virginia aboard the CASS Scenic Railway.
Step back in time and journey with us by rail as we take you up scenic mountains, through picturesque valleys and wooded hills, and across the magnificent scenic countryside of West Virginia to see what “The CASS SCENIC RAILROAD” looked like yesterday and how it still operates today!
Through the use of rare photographs, historical footage, crew interviews, and spectacular archival films, you’ll learn the fascinating 100 year plus story of this world famous railroad! And, through the use of exclusive digital video, on-board, trackside, and aerial drone footage, you’ll experience the close-up sights and sounds of the original steam-driven Shay locomotives, now refurbished and working today including Shay Numbers 5, 11 and the “Big 6”.
“The Cass Scenic Railroad” is one of the top rail fan and tourist destinations in the world and now you can experience all it has to offer in this one-of-a-kind video production you’ll watch over and over again, no matter what your age! It’s as close to being there as possible!
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